Promoting a higher level of GAA involvement in the Global Irish Communities

[Lionhearted]

For well over a 100 years the GAA has played a central role in helping to create the Ireland we know and love today. It has showcased an alive, vibrant and modern image of our People right around the World, carrying with it a sense of longing for and belonging to their homeland - one that has withstood, and will always withstand, the austere winds of change that blow so strongly across our little Island like now. As our national sport, the GAA is a central part of who we are, of our very identity, and we are all proud of both the calibre and devotion of our representative players and the fans alike to our Games, across club and county, as well as of Croke Park especially on big match day. The GAA Brand has always embraced and today is now inseparable from that of our rich and proud Culture, the flame of which continues to connect our people to what is a vast 70 million potential audience of an Irish Diaspora that itself has sown the seeds of our great Irish Culture worldwide.

Now today the Irish People needs that same GAA - the Brand with which it has participated, followed with such enthusiasm and colour, and helped to create over more than a century - needs to Call on it to help us re-connect with our great Diaspora as we seek to lead our Communities forward in the Villages, Towns and Cities to a new and brighter future for our Younger Generation - those young people who will act as custodians of that same GAA Brand throughout this next Century of the GAA.

If you agree, then how should the GAA as a Community get more involved in leading your Local Community forward?

[Eamonnca1]

By banning the Comic Sans font, all bold letters and random capitals. 

Seriously though, the GAA has always been the first point of contact for Irish emigrants, but sometimes it gets a bit disconnected after a few generations. The Ireland Reaching Out initiative has made a start at addressing that problem.

[Lionhearted]

Points well made and well taken. There is so much more however that the GAA, a unique organisation and community brand too, can achieve right now across the Irish community both at home and abroad given its roots, its origins, and the relative scale of its diaspora - which the poll  is seeking to explore.